Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

Michael Kazin, War Against War The failed fight to keep America out of the war.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A House Full of Females Perhaps the book I most want to read from January.

Richard A. Gabriel, God’s Generals Great idea but a problem when two of the three may not have even existed… Still, looking forward to digging up this one.

J.C.McKeown, A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities. This could be really good, fingers crossed….

Douglas Boyd, Agente: Female Secret Agents in World Wars, Cold Wars and Civil Wars Another spy book. Am worried that the range might be too great, but look forward to getting.

Sander L. Gilman and James M. Thomas, Are Racists Crazy? Race and racialism have become one of the great postwar markers. Greatly look forward to reading this.

Seabrook, Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Fort Pillow Bit late with this one (!), but looking forward to getting a copy…

Paolo Morisi, The Italian Folgore Parachute Division Morisi on one of Italy’s few achievements of WW2.

Brian Hughes, Defying the IRA? Not sure about the question mark but hope to read this before the summer.

Gordon Thomas and Greg Lewis, Shadow Warriors of World War II: The Daring Woman of the OSS and SOE A good few months for espionage and spy books. I look forward to reading this one…

Christopher Lane, Surge of Piety: I read one of Norman Vincent Peale’s books many years ago and was fascinated. If the publisher wants to send me a copy…

Douglas Smith, Rasputin: ‘you have to sin to be forgiven’. Fascinated, watching with my daughter, by the role that Rasputin take on in the Disney’s Anastasia.

Harry Freedman, The Murderous History of Bible Translations: how to get yourself killed in the middle ages

Robert Bringhurst, Palatino: The Natural History of a Typeface: we need a good general history of fonts, italics and typefaces…. Go Garamond!

Richard Weikart, Hitler’s Religion: apparently Hitler was a pantheist. It would make sense…